Blasted Tree

Great image.

But take a walk into the Goosepond Mountain Park. Start at Oxford Depot Road and go up about 200 yards. A tree just like this sits in the meadon on the left.

Thanks david. I live very close to GMP but have never been there. This tree has a nearly unique living and dead side which I tried to balance equally. I'll look for the one you mention...I've got to take a walk there before winter.

Interesting subject but I wish that it stood off the background more. I wonder how it would look at f/5.6?
What the heck is going on with foliage around here? Usually, by Halloween most of the leaves are down. Down here it's still pretty Green.
You should carve yourself a wooden tripod out of that tree and name it "Wonderboy"

Yes, Neal, throwing the bg out of focus is something I should try now and then. I think I'm lock-step rigid about everything being sharp in landscape work (even though the bg here isn't tack sharp at all.) Considering how easy it would have been to turn the film holder around and experiment with another interpretation, I'm now sorry I missed the opportunity (though this guy ain't goin nowhere) And yes, this is one weird autumn, especially south of where I live...namely, where you do.

I think that my primarily small format shooting keeps the option of isolating the subject with narrow DoF at the front of my mind while shooting. I love a 135mm/2.8 on 35mm for its flatness and paper thin DoF.
__________ I was in Harriman this week and it was much more colorful than down here but still seemed well behind the season.

I like it just like it is, I think the various tones are just right. There are always other ways to do an image, but this one is trong on it's own. A softer BG would ruin it in my opinion! Charlie......